Hammer township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
Hammer township: | 0.9% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
85% of Hammer township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 27% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 235
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 19
- South: 0
- West: 2
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 97
- Mobile homes: 2
Housing units in Hammer township with a mortgage: 11 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 13
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (38%)
- Construction (12%)
- Repair and maintenance (10%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Health care (29%)
- Educational services (27%)
- Food (8%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (34%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (12%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other financial specialists (4%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (17%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (13%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other financial specialists (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hammer township:
- German (44.1%)
- Norwegian (30.8%)
- French (except Basque) (4.0%)
- Danish (3.5%)
- United States or American (3.5%)
- Dutch (2.6%)
- Irish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 83 (66%)
- Carpooled: 14 (11%)
- Walked: 8 (6%)
- Worked at home: 20 (16%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (66%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (2%)
97.5% of residents of Hammer township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English well, 50% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 258- In family households: 243 (73 male householders, 12 female householders)
70 spouses, 88 children (86 natural, 0 adopted, 2 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 15 (7 male householders (4 living alone)), 6 female householders (6 living alone)), 2 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 47 2-persons, 12 3-persons, 12 4-persons, 11 5-persons, 2 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 10 1-person, 3 2-persons,
50 married couples with children.
11 single-parent households (0 men, 11 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
Here: | 17.1% |
Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Minnesota: | 24.6% |